Playing the Blues has always been Tadd's passion, and is the very foundation of what has become the style for which he's known today! His earliest influences were people like Johnny & Edgar Winter, and Corky Siegel, and he recalls a time, running into Johnny in a club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, the he was rendered temporarily speechless in his presence. Along with his love for playing guitar, Tadd is also a top-notch singer and has fronted the majority of bands he's been in. After a short stint in college as a music major, he decided the best way to get to the core of the music he so loved, was simply, to just get in it, and that he did with a southern rock/blues band called Plain Dealin. This band, and subsequent bands called The Core and 61 Beale Street, took him to the places he had dreamed of and presented many opportunities for Tadd to work with such notable headliners, as: